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Overview of the peaceful protests carried out by the CRM after 1963. -…
Overview of the peaceful protests carried out by the CRM after 1963.
2nd April 1963 - Campaign 'C' (for 'confrontation') to end segregation in Birmingham, Alabama.
Included sit-ins, mass meetings, peaceful protests, and boycotts.
Hundreds of protesters were arrested.
SNCC trained young black people to demonstrate.
6,000 of them marched (some as young as 6, though mostly students). Over 900 people of all ages were arrested.
3rd May 1963 - More young people marched.
Jails were full so police set fire hoses and police dogs on the protesters.
Bad news coverage for the USA
28th August 1963 - March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
Immediately after Birmingham.
250,000 people.40,000 of them were white.
1965 - Selma - More black people entitled to vote than white people but only 1% registered to vote.
SCLC and King were invited to campaign.
17th March 1965 - Bloody Sunday. 600 protesters set out to march from Selma to Montgomery. State troopers stopped them and fired tear gas and attacked them with cattle prods.
Bad news coverage
All over the country, people marched in support of those attacked on Bloody Sunday.
17th March 1965 - President Johnson federalised state national guard, they then escorted the marchers from Selma to Montgomery. King led the March.
1964 - Freedom Summer
SNCC and Core set up Freedom Summer in Mississippi.
Over 1,000 volunteers went to work on projects in the black communities, mostly white college students from good families.
Aim - voter registration
Major white opposition - KKK.
Still not great results - 17,000 black people tried to register, only 1,600 succeeded.